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Re: Prefixed manual describe-function and api overview


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Prefixed manual describe-function and api overview
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2020 08:16:25 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> - I'm not sure I like "prefixed-manual", given this is more about
> "manual-helpers". Feel free to suggest a better name.

`fixed-manual` ? ;-)

> - In `prefixed-manual-overview`, I'd like to display the full
> signature of functions. For example display "(substring-no-properties
> STRING &optional FROM TO)" instead of "substring-no-properties". If
> you know a simple way I'm interested. I tried to use something like
> `(get 'substring-no-properties 'function-documentation)` or play with
> `documentation-property` but couldn't find easily and gave up.

I think you're looking for `help-function-arglist`, but of course that
only works for those functions already loaded into Emacs.


        Stefan




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